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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech)” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech)” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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  • Eyewash fountains
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Rheometers
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Desktop computers
  • Autotitrators
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Distilling condensers
  • Cooling baths
  • Graphing calculators
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Molecular stills
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Flame photometers
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Ionization gauges
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Dye lasers
  • Turbidimeters
  • Lecture bottles
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Coulometers
  • U-tube manometers
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Torsion balances
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Voltmeters
  • Infrared lamps
  • Glass tubing
  • Hydrometers
  • Capillary tubing
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Pirani gauges
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Utility clamps
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Safety gloves
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Ruby lasers
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Ammeters
  • Fluorimeters
  • Triple beam balances
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Sample crushers
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Reaction flasks
  • Pressure gauges
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Ball mills
  • Test tube clamps
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Drying pistols
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Titrators
  • Mainframe computers
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Pycnometers
  • pH indicators
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Multimeters
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Safety glasses
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Polarimeters
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Lyophilizers
  • Thermocouples
  • Safety goggles
  • Pull spring balances
  • Metering pumps
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Monochromators
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Single-pan balances
  • Finger pumps
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Differential refractometers
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Tension gauges
  • Heating mantles
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Canister gas masks
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Safety showers
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Nebulizers
  • Face shields
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Gas burners
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Prisms
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Buchner funnels
  • Automatic burets
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Mercury barometers
  • Water aspirators
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Cork borer sets
  • Steam baths
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Hot air blowers
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Filter pumps
  • Personal computers
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Velometers
  • Homogenizers
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Lasers
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Laboratory balances
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Radiation detectors
  • Bell jars
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Photo detectors
  • Meker burners
  • Dessicators
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Reflux condensers
  • Comparators
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Bunsen burners
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Rotameters
  • McLeod gauges
  • Claisen flasks
  • Photocells
  • Westphal balances
  • Viscosity meters
  • Glass burets
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Agitation tanks
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Immersion heaters
  • Polarizers
  • Gooch crucibles

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